"You might think that a general manager's job gets easier as the team gets better and the roster starts to become more complete.

You would be wrong.

"This is probably our most challenging offseason so far, because of where we are as a team," Lions general manager Martin Mayhew said on Thursday, during his annual postseason news conference.

"In the past, we were just looking at acquiring good players," he said. "Now we have good players. Which ones can we keep? Which ones are we not going to be able to keep and can we replace those players with the same talent level — at a better price or at the same price? There are a lot of different challenges.""